Weeder attachment to cultivators.



No. 881,566. PATBNTBD MAR.1o, 190s.

' F.v M. EVBRINGHAMDBG'D.

M BVBEINGHAM, BXEUUTRIX.

WEBDER ATTACHMENT T0 GULTIVATORS.

APPLICATION FILED Amma, 1907.

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` NVENTOR I gmg UNITED sTATEs PATENT oEEioE.

MARYETTE EVERINGHAM, OF EAST ONONDAGA, NEW YORK, EXEUTRIX OF FRANCIS M. EVERINGHAM, DECEASED.

WEEDER ATTACHMENT TO CULTIVATORSLl Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented March 10, 1908.

Application filed August 23, 1907. Serial N o. 389,758.

To all who/mit may concern.

Be it known that FRANCIS M. EVERING- HAM, late a citizen of the United States, and a resident of East Onondaga, in the county of Onondaga, State of New York,` deceased, did invent a new and useful Improvement in Weeder Attachments to Cultivators, of which the following is a specication.

The purpose of this invention is to remove weeds, stones and other obnoxious substances from around the plants simultaneously with the operationy of cultivating the said plants, consists in the combination, with the cultivator frame, of a supplemental frame equipped with depending flexible tines disposed in rows diverging rearwardly from the central line of draft of the cultivator as hereinafter more fully described.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of a cultivator provided with the weeder-attachment, (one of the wheels being removed); Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same below the plane indicated by thev broken line 2 2- in Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is an enlarged detached perspective view of one of the weeder tines; Fig. 4 shows the attachment of the said tine; and Fig. 5 shows the adjustable attachment of the weeder frame to the cultivator frame.

The cultivator frame consists mainly of the usual diverging side rails -a-atied to each other by means of transverse rails ib-twhich are rigidly attached at their ends to the aforesaid side rails. All of said rails are preferably made from angle iron or L-shaped 'steel bars to impart the requisite stability to the frame.

-A- denotes the cranked axle upon which the cultivator frame is mounted and adapted to be raised or lowered as may be desired by the adjustment of said axle which is effected by means of a hand lever -L- which is attached to a transverse shaft -c pivoted to a suitable support on the cultivator frame and having fastened to it an arm -dwhich is connected to the arched central portion of the axle by means of a rod -e as shown in Fig. 1 of the drawings.

C-O are the carrying wheels which are j ournaled on the axle -A-.

--Dh represents the drivers seat mounted on the rear ends of steel rails f which are rigidly secured to an arched cross plate -gmounted on the axle -A- close to the And to that end the invention' 4hubs of the wheels -O-O-. 'The seat rails --f-f---extend forward to the inner sides of theside-'rails -a-cto which they are attached and from whence the rails --fpole is attached to a cross bar -/iwhich is firmly connected to the front ends of the side rails `-(L--.

--Z-Z- represent the whiffle trees which are suspended from the ends of the bar --t`- by means of rods i1- as shown in Fig. 1. -j-Jjare rods connecting the whiffle trees to the side rails -a-(kat some distance from the front ends thereof.

-I-I-- are the cultivator teeth which are curved S-shaped and are fastened to the underside of the horizontal webs of the side rails -a-a-- *F--- represents a supplemental frame which is disposed .horizontally below the cultivator frame and iirmly connected thereto, Said supplemental frame is preferably formed from a longitudinal Hat steel bar TZ1- disposed in the central line of draft of the cultivator and formed with upwardly extending hangers -Z2`Z2` which are connected to the vertical webs of the transverse rails -b-b-- The said connection is made adjustable by the provision ofa plurality of perforations -min the han ers hZ2'--Z2- at different points in the lengt thereof.

' A bolt nh passing through one of the perforations of each hanger and through a perforation in the adjacent' transverse rail and provided with a removable nut completes the attachment of the aforesaid supplemental frame tothe cultivator frame. If

desired the bolt --f/Lh may be braced by a metal strap -0- attached at one end to the transverse rail -tand enga ing at the opposite end the bolt nas shown.

-rhrrepresent arms attached at one end to the longitudinal bar -Z1- and extending obliquely rearward from opposite sides of said bar as shown in Fig. 2. Said arms are sustained at their rear ends by means of braces -sconnecting said ends to the bar *Z1-1 Each of the arms r is composed of two Hat metal plates or bars disposed parallel one over the other and with a space --r1- between them as shown in Fig.- 4.

-t-t-- represent the tines of the Weeder. Said tines are distributed lengthwise of the arms -rand are thus in rows disposed divergent from the central line of draft. They consist of slender and flexible steel rods, the main or lower end portions of which are straight as shown at -t1--. The upper end portions are curved as shown at -tzand terminate in perforated horizontal flat heads -t3- which are inserted between the plates of the arm -ras shown in Fig. 4 and are fastened therein by means of bolts or rivets passing through perforations Ju-M in the heads wt3- of the tines and through the perforations in the arm -r-. The tines -t-t-- extend rearwardly Jfrom the arms and in the operation of the cultivator said tines drag with their lower ends through the ground surrounding the plants and pull out the weeds and remove stones and other objectionable substances from around the plants without injury to said plants.

Claims:

l. The combination, with the cultivatorframe, of a longitudinal bar terminating in 2. The combination with the cultivator frame formed with side-rails carrying the cultivator teeth, and transverse rails tying the side-rails to each other, of a central longitudinal bar supported at each endon the transverse rails, separate arms extending from opposite sides of the central bar and equipped with weeder-teeth, and braces oonnecting the free ends of said arms separate and independently of each other to the aforesaid central bar.

Miarmrii EVERINGHAM. [1.5.] Ea'ecutriw of the estate of Francis Ill. Haeringham, deceased.

litnesses J. J. LAAss, S. R. LAvrNu. 

